QX: What do you think it will take for the gay community to be taken more seriously in cinema?
DR: We have to empower ourselves to deal with these issues and just get on with it ourselves. But it’s not like we need to find evidence of ourselves in media, because we’re there. We’ve got Sex and the City, which is about four gay men running around New York. We’ve got Six Feet Under and perfectly reasonable relationships acted out on TV. We’ve got Dawson’s Creek and that really cute guy storming his way around the frat house fucking everything he can. We’re there! If you’re a young gay man now you’ve got evidence that you exist. You might not even want to go to a gay bar, because you might be getting what you need from your straight mates. And that’s how it should be. I mean, when I was young I had to leave my hometown to be who I was. And I think that’s beginning to change. You don’t have to define yourself as gay anymore. You can be the guy who maybe messes around with boys more than girls. Do you see what I’m saying? It’s not about drag or butch or whatever any more. It’s more about straight boys who want to find themselves or bi boys who want to just do what they need to do. And we’ve got to be more receptive. And that’s through our films as well. We’re going, “Oh he slept with a man once so he must be gay! He’s one of us.” What queeny shit! We can’t claim him. We’ve got to learn that when someone says he’s straight and he sleeps with guys, he’s straight and he sleeps with guys. That’s the deal. That’s the kind of area I want to look at now. We can’t be so fucking eager to judge. I think sometimes we keep people imprisoned. I’m really exploring my latent heterosexuality at the moment. And I need to. I’m a fairly good-looking 36-year-old guy who’s interested in women at the moment. I get something from women which I don’t get from a man. And equally I get things from men that I can’t get from women. You know there’s nothing nicer than being with a man and holding onto his balls and kissing the back of his neck, feeling his stubble on your lips. And equally there’s nothing more beautiful than holding a woman and touching her breasts. I’m investigating lots of things. And as I said that will start finding its way into my movies.